What is the device you want, but that does not exist?
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
A small, cheap holographic projector (as in projects a glowing volumetric image into the air that I can wave my hand through). It would probably work using femtosecond lasers, but making the optics small and cheap would be difficult.
I know about the Boox devices, but the double screen is the main selling point for me. As far as I know, there’s nothing similar offered by any other manufacturer out there. The PadMu comes close, but it’s two separate devices (no hinge) that you have to pair via Bluetooth and place side by side, and the pairing process is slow and cumbersome.
Well yes, any E-Ink device should be able to open a PDF, but PadMu gives you the ability to sync two devices so you can place them next to each other and display two pages at once. I think it has additional features specifically for working with sheet music, like an infra-red sensor for turning pages by waving your hands in front of the device. I know the Gvido has that (Edit: But the PadMu actually doesn’t; it’s all software enhancements and the dual display mode).
This review showcases the side-by-side display (double mode) feature at around 4:20. Can Onyx devices do that? I haven’t checked, but my guess is no.
If the main difference is the dual screen thing then it’s not much use for me. My main use case with sheet music is writing it, not reading for performance - so I’d actually prefer to work on just one screen at a time.
Lever that sticks out under the toekick on a vanity sink base cabinet, that opens the cabinet doors.
Basically so you can put a trash can under the sink and access it hands-free.
In other words, a cabinet that opens and closes with the same mechanism as a step-to-open trash can, but without the trash can taking up space in your small bathroom.
You’ve got some floss to toss, no need to touch your cabinet door handle just step down on the lever, toss the floss in the wastebasket, release foot and the door closes again.
Also a phone that takes landscape video while held vertically.
Two pairs of headphones that join into a single jack, for friends to listen to the same stuff.
iphone with headphone jack
Laptop whose power cable attaches magnetically
Computer keyboard composed of material designed to be pleasant to the touch.
Computer with a battery I can take out easily.
Computer with a body machined out of a single continuous block of aluminum
mp3 player that present a simple file system interface when plugged in via USB to a computer. Want an mp3 on that mp3 player? Just drag n drop. Or use cp command. Or mv. Or any of your favorite methods for moving files onto a mounted drive.
Laptop with an escape key.
Operating system that doesn’t connect to and play my most shameful porn on a random TV somewhere in the vicinity that may or may not include the house of my parents’ neighbors who apparently have an unspoken agreement with my parents to leech off their wifi.
A mac that runs on intel chips
A notifications stream where all of the notifications that appeared on my screen can be found, arranged in chronological order from based on when they appeared on my screen.
Okay now that I think about it, I just want Apple to undo most of their design decisions from the last 15 years.
For your 2 headphones, there are 3.5mm splitters, small devices where you plug in 2 headphones, and plug then into one walkman. Works with any brand of headphones :)
I’m looking for the Bluetooth version of that. Connect the btsplitter to the phone, and two headphones to the splitter. Edit: found easily.
Oh I know. Android is real software. Max OS is kinda like a video game designed by las vegas.
Mac OS has a “Notification Center”. It’s just that it doesn’t show the actual notifications you’ve seen. It shows some overlapping set, missing notifications that were shown and showing notifications that never were shown. It’s the usual non-solid horseshit so common in UI design these days. It’s like the opposite of Material Design, it’s like Quicksand Design. Take a step backward and end up 100 miles away instead of where you intended to be which is where you were before your last step.
Hey, good news! The newer MacBooks (since like 2 years ago) have rolled back the Touch Bar, gotten back the ol’ reliable scissors switches and MagSafe chargers, as well as having enough ports to plug stuff in.
As for arm vs. intel, I’m a huge fan of the arm chips. My largest issue with them is that I need to cross compile for intel chips if I’m distributing an executable or a compiled library.
I want an updated Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact with all the modern internal bits. Modern processor, sufficient RAM and good enough camera. Doesn’t have to be the best, just good enough to keep upwith the times.
More importantly I want the height and width to remain the same; thickness can be increased if required.
Also keep the 3.5mm jack, camera shutter button, notification LED and the sim + micro-sd tray. Dual sim would be a bonus.
In my experience this most often comes from a failure to perform routine maintenance, and Windows being a bloated rotting whale, decaying on the beach, slowly expanding and spreading its horrid filth across the entire system. Give your computer a new life by cleaning out all the dust, reapplying thermal paste to the CPU, oiling fan bearings, and installing a lightweight Linux distro, or at least a fresh whale carcass (clean windows install).
totally understandable which is precisely why I’m sharing, it’s sadly a surprising situation and I can’t say if it’s a trend, just sharing my personal experience.
I want an extremely low power laptop for programming. Slow processor, e-ink screen with a low refresh rate. I want 24 hours battery life with a solar charger to sit outside and program.
I would love to have this too. E-ink has seen some pretty high success, in e-readers and e-ink picture displays, so why not have a low-end e-ink laptop
Add foldable, built in pen, macro camera, laser focus, headphone jack (and a good dac), xenon flash, ideally swappable battery, waterproof and im sold - is that really too much to ask?
A robotic AI pet. Like a small dog or cat. Preferable able to read my body language and react to it. In a low price range that I can afford. Everything on the market is too dumb, too expensive, too hard to program and there is non that can read body language.
An unbreakable device that can transport me to any world or time I want It has the be light, small, and not suspicious-looking, and I need to be able to transport the device to me at any time. The things that happen during my visits would not actually affect reality, but instead it would kind of create an alternative universe.
So if I went back in time and killed some historical figure, then returned to this reality, they wouldn’t have been killed by me. Or if I went to the fictional world of a book and killed some character, it would happen in a different reality that the one the book takes place in. (otherwise I would have a constant fear of fucking up the entire universe.)
And, of course, I would have to gain the ability to understand, speak, write and read the languages. Also I would have to be immune to diseases they spread and they would have to be immune to the diseases I spread.
Or maybe I have to be a little more humble and say that I want a robot that could clean my room and put all my items in the correct places.
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